Crucible vocab Page where word appears in Act Two is in parentheses…

Crucible vocabPage where word appears in Act Two is in parentheses… • Flinch (p. 71) • Sarcasm (p. 60) • Weighty (p.56) • Evasively (p. 75) • Deceit (p. 62) • Resentful (p. 64) • Wily (p.64) • Ineptly (p. 73) • Magistrates (p. 52) • Falter (p. 69) • Civilly (p. 60) • Compensate (p. 56) • Calamity (p. 74) • Indignant (p. 57)

p. 71 • HALE, pleading: Nurse, though our hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships.

p. 60 PROCTOR: I say sit down! She sits, trembling. He speaks quietly, trying to keep his wits. Now we must be wise, Elizabeth. ELIZABETH, with sarcasm, and a sense of being lost: Oh, indeed, indeed!

p. 56 • PROCTOR— he pauses an instant, then: You will not go to court again, Mary Warren. MARY WARREN: I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what weightywork we do.

p. 75 • PROCTOR, impatiently, pointing at the doll in Cheever’s hand: This poppet, this poppet. MARY WARREN, evasively, looking at it: Why, I— I think it is mine.

p. 62 PROCTOR: Then how do you charge me with such a promise? The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl! ELIZABETH: Then why do you anger with me when I bid you break it? PROCTOR: Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest! But I’ll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!

p. 64 • HALE: I thought, sir, to put some questions as to the Christian character of this house, if you’ll permit me. • PROCTOR, coldly, resentful: Why, we— have no fear of questions, sir. • HALE: Good, then. He makes himself more comfortable

p. 64 • PROCTOR, evading: I— have no knowledge in that line. But it’s hard to think so pious a woman be secretly a Devil’s bitch after seventy year of such good prayer. • HALE: Aye. But the Devil is a wily one, you cannot deny it. However, she is far from accused, and I know she will not be.

p. 73 • CHEEVER: Now, woman, will you please to come with me? • PROCTOR: She will not! To Elizabeth: Fetch Mary here. • CHEEVER, ineptly reaching toward Elizabeth: No, no, I am forbid to leave her from my sight.

p. 52 ELIZABETH: “I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor; I am an official of the court!” PROCTOR: Court! What court? ELIZABETH: Aye, it is a proper court they have now. They’ve sent four judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the General Court, and at the head sits the Deputy Governor of the Province.

p. 69 PROCTOR: I— had not reckoned with goin’ into court. But if I must I will. HALE: Do you falter here? PROCTOR: I falter nothing, but I may wonder if my story will be credited in such a court. I do wonder on it, when such a steady-minded minister as you will suspicion such a woman that never lied, and cannot, and the world knows she cannot! I may falter somewhat, Mister; I am no fool.

p. 60 MARY WARREN: I am bound by law, I cannot tell it. To Proctor: I only hope you’ll not be so sarcastical no more. Four judges and the King’s deputy sat to dinner with us but an hour ago. I —I would have you speak civilly to me, from this out.

p. 56 PROCTOR: When will you proceed to keep this house, as you are paid nine pound a year to do— and my wife not wholly well? As though to compensate, Mary Warren goes to Elizabeth with a small rag doll. MARY WARREN: I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor.

p. 74 • PROCTOR, angrily, bewildered: And what signifies a needle! • CHEEVER, his hands shaking: Why, this go hard with her, Proctor, this— I had my doubts, Proctor, I had my doubts, but here’s calamity. To Hale, showing the needle: You see it, sir, it is a needle!

p. 57 MARY WARREN: She sent her spirit out. ELIZABETH : Oh, Mary, Mary, surely you— MARY WARREN, with an indignant edge: She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor!

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